Saturday March 15, 2014 will forever remembered on a sad note for families of those who died in a stampede at Nigeria Immigration recruitment test centres. A mammoth crowd of unemployed graduates had stormed test centres across the nation to participate in the exercise, about 6 million applied for the available 4,255 slot in the Immigration service. At the end of the day about 18 persons died in a stampede which occurred in Abuja, Niger and Rivers states leaving several injured. 37centres were used for the test which left tales of woes for families of the deceased, Nigerians in their millions have being calling for the sack of the Minister of interior Abba Moro.
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Minister of Interior Abba Moro
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday summoned the Minister of Interior, as well as the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, David Parradang.
The emergency summon comes days after at least 18 people died nationwide at different venues of a recruitment test conducted by the immigration service on Saturday. The poorly organised test for tens of thousands of job seekers across Nigeria led to a stampede and sporadic shooting by security operatives at different venues; leading to the deaths. The immigration service is supervised by the interior ministry . Mr. Moro, who was at the Presidential Villa alongside Mr. Parradang, spent over one hour in the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Oladehinde Arogbofa. Both men were then led to see the President.
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